Luton won't be able to welcome fans back in October after government pauses plans

Luton Town's hopes of allowing some supporters back into Kenilworth Road once more from October 1 will not happen now after an announcement from cabinet office minister Michael Gove this morning.

There had been plans to allow 1,000 fans into watch EFL games at the start of next month, with Hatters' home game against Wycombe Wanderers their first opportunity to do so, but these were placed under review earlier this month after a rise in coronavirus cases.

With the UK's Covid-19 alert level now moving to 4, meaning transmission is "high or rising exponentially", then speaking to BBC Breakfast, Gove said: "We were looking at a staged programme of more people returning - it wasn't going to be the case that we were going to have stadiums thronged with fans.

"We're looking at how we can, for the moment, pause that programme, but what we do want to do is to make sure that, as and when circumstances allow, get more people back.

"The virus is less likely to spread outdoors than indoors but again it's in the nature of major sporting events that there's a lot of mingling."